Reblog if you ARE a woman in STEM, SUPPORT women in STEM, or ARE STILL BITTER about Rosalind Franklin not getting credit for discovering the structure of DNA and the Nobel prize going to Watson and Crick instead.
Rosalind is my lab’s ghost (previously dominated by men) and she is there to fuck shit up.
How most people with invisible illnesses are treated by health care “professionals”
The Golden Girls didn’t fuck around
pls watch
honestly i really appreciated this scene when I first saw it bc it took me like two years to get a diagnosis for what’s wrong with me
Dorothy: Dr. Budd?
Dr. Budd: Yes?
Dorothy: You probably don’t remember me, but you told me I wasn’t sick. Do you remember? You told me I was just getting old.
Dr. Budd: I’m sorry, I really don’t–
Dorothy: Remember. Maybe you’re getting old. That’s a little joke. Well, I tell you, Dr. Budd, I really am sick. I have chronic fatigue syndrome. That is a real illness. You can check with the Center for Disease Control.
Dr. Budd: Huh. Well, I’m sorry about that.
Dorothy: Well, I’m glad! At least I know I have something.
Dr. Budd: I’m sure. Well, nice seeing you.
Dorothy: Not so fast. There are some things I have to say. There are a lot of things that I have to say. Words can’t express what I have to say. [tearing up] What I went through, what you put me through—I can’t do this in a restaurant.
Dr. Budd: Good!
Dorothy: But I will!
Dr. Budd’s date: Louis, who is this person?
Dr. Budd: Look, Miss–
Dorothy: Sit. I sat for you long enough. Dr. Budd, I came to you sick—sick and scared—and you dismissed me. You didn’t have the answer, and instead of saying “I’m sorry, I don’t know what’s wrong with you,” you made me feel crazy, like I had made it all up. You dismissed me! You made me feel like a child, a fool, a neurotic who was wasting your precious time. Is that your caring profession? Is that healing? No one deserves that kind of treatment, Dr. Budd, no one. I suspect had I been a man, I might have been taken a bit more seriously, and not told to go to a hairdresser.
Dr. Budd: Look, I am not going to sit here anymore–
Dr. Budd’s date: Shut up, Louis.
Dorothy: I don’t know where you doctors lose your humanity, but you lose it. You know, if all of you, at the beginning of your careers, could get very sick and very scared for a while, you’d probably learn more from that than anything else. You’d better start listening to your patients. They need to be heard. They need caring. They need compassion. They need attending to. You know, someday, Dr. Budd, you’re gonna be on the other side of the table, and as angry as I am, and as angry as I always will be, I still wish you a better doctor than you were to me.
Reblogging for any of my mutuals who’ve ever dealt with Dr. Budd.
Herd (community) Immunity: indirectly protects those who
cannot get vaccinated for medical reasons (i.e. people with immune deficiency,
and those who cannot form immunity). Herd Immunity only works when enough people
are immunized in a population.
Herd Immunity works by stopping the spread of the disease.
If a virus is unable to infect a new host it will die. By being immunized,
there is less opportunity for the virus to thrive. It won’t be able to find a
new host and this decreases its chances of reaching people who cannot get
vaccinated.
With the anti-vaccine movement, less people are being
vaccinated, and we are not at the proper level for herd immunity to work. This
is putting people at risk for catching these diseases and dying. The only way
to protect them is by vaccinating, and stop giving the disease opportunity to
spread.
Protect those who can’t protect themselves.
So much this. I’m on CellCept and steroids, both of which can fuck up the immune system (in fact that’s what CellCept is designed for – it’s normally used for people with transplants but also used In autoimmune disease which is why I take it), so this is huge.
My steroid bottles even come with this big warning label saying not to be around sick people. Unfortunately I’m going to be on steroids the rest of my life, and CellCept until and unless my body can finally tolerate the other therapies for myasthenia gravis. (I got meningitis from one of the two main alternatives, and I can’t do the other one until the bleeding hole in my stomach closes over, so it may be awhile if ever). So for the meantime I really don’t need to deal with unvaccinated people. And I know several people in similar positions to me who have gotten really sick, some of whom almost died, from exposure to unvaccinated children.
Unfortunately, there are people out there who literally say that people like me should not survive. They say it’s ~unnatural~ and that in the past before vaccines we would’ve all died off and that would be better because we’re weakening the human race by our continued existence or something. They don’t grasp that it’s quite possible they wouldn’t have been around either. And that in any case, it’s not their job to wish that kind of crap upon the world, like what right do they think they have to play judge over who should die off, and why do they believe that they’re (no pun intended) immune somehow, that they’d be spared as one of the ~stronger~ ones, when they have no such assurances at all? IDK, but it pisses me off.
And it’s one of the more dangerous forms of ableism, the ones that center around the idea that disabled people shouldn’t be alive. There’s many forms that can take, some of them very blatant, others very subtle. But in every form it comes in, it’s utterly toxic to the continued existence of disabled people. So in addition to avoiding anti-vax BS, try and avoid the rhetoric that paints some people as just automatically more deserving of life because they’re ~stronger~, too. That will help immunize people in a totally different way – against the idea that disabled people dying is ~natural~ and us living is ~unnatural~, and that our continued existence weakens the entire species, and all the deadly consequences of that belief.
I came across her story a few months ago with this video:
So the moment I saw her face in the video and golden buzzer in the title I started crying because she deserves this and is a great inspiration and call out to deaf people and others to learn about signals.
could y’all not with the “I wish she could hear sound.” being deaf isn’t a bad thing.
by the way, you see how so many of the crowd are waving their hands in the air? that’s how you cheer/applaud in ASL. She KNOWS they’re cheering for her. jesus fuck
I love her story and I’m so happy she’s bringing awareness for deaf people and eds, holy god the inspiration porn and people’s comments about her are pissing me off. She’s amazing. Society’s ableism is exhausting though.
“The worst part about being truly alone is that you think about all those times you wished everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company.”
